Game apparatus



J. A. BNO.

No Model.)

GAME APPARATUS.

Patented Apr. 5, 1892 INVENTOR:

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t ATTORNEYS JOSEPH A. ENO, OF NEW'ARK, NEW JERSEY.

GAM E APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 472,289, dated April, 5, 1892.

Application filed November 17, 1891. Serial No. 412,121. (No model.)

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The object of this invention is to provide a simple, cheap, and amusing game that can be played by any number of persons and adapted for use when traveling. 4

The invention consists in the new and improved game and game-board and the combination and arrangement of the various portions thereof, substantially as will be herein-v after more fully described, and finally embodied in the claims.

The accompanying drawing represents a plan View of my improved game or gameboard, in which- A represents a table or board made of cardboard, wood, or any desired material of sufficient thickness. From a point a at or preferably near the center of the board A are formed a series of concentric circular lines o, c, d, e, and f, forming a series of annular rings. The circle or annular ring between the lines I) and c is divided. by radial lines 9 into eight segmental portions, the lines 9 being extended outward to the circular line f. The segments formed by the lines g in the annular rings between the lines 0, cl, 6, and fare subdivided equally by radial lines h. The lines 9, or any number of them that may be desired, are extended beyond the outer line f, as shown in the drawing, to provide a point 2', from which a button or other object m is propelled, as hereinafter described. These segmental portions of the rings are alternately shaded or colored in contrast and so arranged that the shaded portion of one ring shall be opposite, or nearly so, the open segment or field 0f the other ring. The central circle is not shaded or colored. The unshaded or open portions I term the fields, and are the points within which it is the effort of the player to deposit the button. These fields vary in Value or number of points to be counted, the con tral field being of the greatest value, and the value of the fields in the surrounding rings decreasing as their distance from the center increases.

In the drawing I have shown the central field as and the outer fields in a decreasing' ratio to 5; but such valuation is not absolute, as any valuation can be arranged as desired.

In playing the game the players have an equal number of buttons and play alternately. One button is then placed on the pointi and shoved or propelled Within the rings. The next player does the same with one of his rings, and so on until all the buttons have been played. In order that a button shall count, it must be entirely within a field, and must not rest upon or touch any line, and the counting or reckoning is not made until all the buttons have been played. The number of points to constitute the game-limit must be agreed upon before commencing the game. The open spaces or fields must be large enough to receive the button Without resting upon or touching a boundary-line.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a game-board, the combination, with the playing buttons or men, of a central field, a series of concentric circles surrounding said central field and adapted to form annular rings, a series of radial lines dividing said rings in equal segmental portions, numbers arranged alternately on said segmental portions, decreasing in value from the center, and a number arranged on the central field, substantially as described and set forth.

2. In a game-board, the combination, with the playing-buttons or men, of a central field, a series of concentric circles surrounding said central field and adapted to form annular rings, a series of radial lines dividing said rings in equal segmental portions, numbers arranged alternately on said segmental portions, decreasing in value from the center, a number arranged on the central field, and points arranged opposite each other and outside of said annular rings, said points being adapted to form the homes for the men or checkers, substantially as described and set forth.

In a game-board, the combination, with a central field, of a series of annular rings surrounding said central field, a series of lines extending radially from the first and second inner ring, respectively, to the outmost ring, said lines dividing said rings into segmental fields, numbers arranged alternately on said fields, and men or checkers to be played and counted, substantially as described.

4. In a game-board, the combination, with a central field, of a series of annular rings surrounding said central field, a series of lines extending radially from the first and second August, 1891.

JOSEPH A. ENO.

Vitnesses:

ALFRED GARTNER, E. L. SHERMAN. 

